Word: bedrocked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Romans is overwhehningly-perhaps recklessly-ambitious, an attempt to correlate the twilight of early British history with some of the nation's bedrock myths and most urgent contemporary problems. Celtic lore and Roman might thus flow through the first stirrings of Arthurian legend and course straight into the Irish issue. A quarter of the play takes place in 1980, when a British spy waits in a field to eliminate a high-ranking member of the I.R.A. "It's Celts we're fighting in Ireland," he ruminates. "We won't get anywhere till we know what that...
...Amour heroes like Tell don't chew, swear, swill redeye or hang around dance halls, and they don't go with girls who do. Horseplay and gunplay are surprisingly infrequent. The Sacketts are courtly coffee drinkers who never draw first and fight only when their bedrock belief in the perfectability of mankind has been violated. They hardly rate...
...Shining, Stephen King's pulpy haunted-house novel, keeps forcing reasonable - or non-occult - interpretations on the behavior, variously bonkers and bloody, that his camera records with its customary elegance. Whether his stylistic mastery and rigorous intelligence will carry this film to commercial success with the bedrock audience for horror - a young crowd that likes its metaphysics murky and its menaces crude - is problematical. But it is impossible not to admire Kubrick for flouting conventional expectations of his horror film just as he did those of the sci-fi tale...
...tough stance on Afghanistan. Shortly after meeting with Vance, British Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington called on his fellow Europeans to unite in supporting the U.S. Said he: "There is no country in the [European] Community which doesn't know that the alliance with America is the bedrock of Europe's security. When the chips are down, we are all firmly on the side of the only superpower we have...
...Larouche, or former New Hampshire governor Meldrim Thompson (running on the Constitution Party ticket) were truly in the race. "I wish Bill Loeb (the publisher of the Union-Leader, a fanatical conservative) would run," one old man declares. "I'd vote for him--he's an honest man." The bedrock conservatism of the Granite State is as firm as any in the nation, fed by rational fears of high-priced meat and heating...